Nigeria: Stakeholders meet to find solutions to potato blight
Stakeholders, including over 300 farmers from Plateau’s eight local government areas producing potato in commercial quantity yesterday met in Jos the State capital to find solution to the dreaded potato blight disease currently ravaging farmlands
Yesterday’s event which was organised by Vicampro, a Plateau-based potato production, storage and processing company, had potato farmers from Jos North, Jos South, Riyom, Bassa, Panshin, Mangu, Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas in attendance.
Speaking on how to prevent phytophtera infrestance, the oomycete (water molds) that causes potato blight, Ludo Wentholt, the Chief Operating Officer of Vicampro, said high humidity and temperature stimulates the growth of blight, making the disease more severe in the rainy season.
Earlier, the Managing Director, Vicampro, Michael Agbogbo said the fact that close to 70 per cent of the major potato farmers in Plateau State were at the workshop meant the problem of potato blight must be tackled head on.
Fuente: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/stakeholders-meet-to-find-solutions-to-potato-blight/158730.html
